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Show Exports asid Imports Drop in September WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. Exports and imports both fell off during September. Sep-tember. The decrease of approximately 'S3-1.-000,000 in exports, whose total for September was $456,201,507, Is attributed attrib-uted in part to tho activities of the war trade board In holding up licenses. While the exports have dropped In comparison with August, they show a gain of $80,000,000 as compared with July. For the nine months ended with September 30 the total exports were ?!, 607.817,178, a gain of $657,000, 000 over the similar period In 1916. Imports in September dropped $31,-312,181 $31,-312,181 from August's total of $270,-509,370. $270,-509,370. For the nine months they totalled two and a quarter billion, or $450,000,000 gain over the similar period last year. Gold and silver are going out of the country far In excess of their import. month of thirty days, an overtime rate of compensation for Sunday work and a week's holiday each. The $17,000 will be spread among them proportionately proportion-ately to their present wages. They asked 75 cents for the first hour and 60 cents for succeeding hours for Sunday Sun-day work and were awarded GO and 50 cents. Their request was for u fifteen-day fifteen-day vacation. The arbitrators who started work two weeks ago, were Standton J. Peele and James H. Gore, neutrals; C. W. Jones and E. S. Jouett of the railroad, rail-road, and W. T. Brown and Owen D. Gorman for the men. |